Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Junta had picked up a 40-15 advantage. The lean Yale sophomore took the next four games and the set, 6-2. When he jumped away to a 3-1 lead in the third set, it looked as though he would go all the way. But Junta refused to quit, and, calling on reserve amazing for one who was playing for only the fourth time since April, simply outclassed his favored opponent to triumph...
Supermarket operators in Bellingham, Wash. (pop. 38,500) finally quit suffering in silence and broadcast a trade secret that had been kept pretty well by grim grocers across the country: since recession, the customers have been stealing supermarkets blind...
...Africa at the hands of the U.S., the Kremlin had a vital interest in seeing France retain its position in the area. When one of the French guests suggested that Russia could contribute mightily to this goal by publicly endorsing a "strictly French solution" and "telling the Algerians to quit fighting," Vinogradov affected to find the suggestion both novel and impressive. "Hmm," he said. "I'll communicate the idea to my superiors right away. We are serious about this Algerian business. Don't be surprised by anything...
...more than 100,000 lives in the past ten years; now its economy is strained by heavy overseas indebtedness. And the military junta that has been in charge since the fall of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last May has been waiting with thinning patience for the civilian politicos to quit squabbling and agree on a man and a plan...
...union man." After a last concert at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium in July 1953, Levant packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About Music, then got a reprimand for making anti-Nixon quips and quit in disgust. Last February, after more than a year in four sanitariums, he got a call from KCOP (co-owned by Bing Crosby), was offered a temporary job filling in for ailing Jokester Tom Duggan. Ten days later Levant had a show...